Soft Skills - Ask a Wharton MBA
Develop Soft Skills – Work Smart & Live More
If you ask a kid, you will hear enthusiastic answers such as nurse, teacher, fireman, astronaut, doctor etc… What about now, do you still ask yourself this question? If not, why not? We may be “grown ups,” but most of us don’t know the answer to this question as clearly as we use to as a kid. I believe everyone should ask themselves this question at least once every two years. ...
It is hard work to look for a job or to take our careers to the next level. Often we have to learn new skills and conquer new challenges in order to make progress. This is much easier said than done. We are all creatures of comfort and doing anything new can often invoke confusion or self-doubt. ...
How’s that for a controversial title. Well, this sentence was the summarized punchline on a recent Forbes article a friend sent me titled “Why Men Don’t Promote Women More.”
While this article was very much in your face and seems initially almost offensive. I have to say that I agree with most of the concepts it states ...
It doesn’t matter how old you are and how skilled you are, it’s always a good idea to ask for help or a second opinion. Tom Peters, the author of “In Search of Excellence” agrees.
I attended a “Newpreneur of the Year” finale event a month ago in San Francisco sponsored by INC and Alibaba.com. Tom peters was the keynote speaker. One of the key messages he presented was the concept of LATA – these are key skills needed in building excellence continuously in your work and career. ...
I don’t know if you notice but kids in general loves to chase after “bright shiny objects.” They may be playing with their favorite toy but as soon as they see another “bright shiny object,” especially owned by another child, they immediately seem to want that one instead and drop the one they have in their hands. ...
“Acknowledge your effort for showing up.” That is what a Bikram teacher used to say to us at the end of every class. To this day, I still repeat this phrase to myself during class. It reminds me to appreciate myself for simply making the class, regardless of how inflexible I was, or how imperfectly I was able to do the postures during that particular class. ...
This is a very popular topic for discussion in this day and age. A good friend forwarded me an article this week that prompted me to want to write this post. The article is called Salary, Gender and the Social Cost of Haggling
It included a lot of great quantitative data on this subject, if you are interested in the details. Key points of view of this article are: ...